Security Engineer

About the role

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About this Position

The Security Engineer is critical in designing, building, and operating security solutions that protect sensitive customer and business data across digital platforms, applications, infrastructure, and emerging technologies.

The Security Engineer collaborates with DevOps, IT, Product, Application, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure & Operations, Program Management, and Security Operations teams to ensure that security is embedded throughout the technology lifecycle and insurance product delivery.

The role also supports the secure adoption and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and leverages AI, automation, and orchestration to enhance security capabilities, accelerate security workflows, improve detection and response, and reduce manual operational effort.

The Security Engineer participates in security incident response activities and an on-call rotation to support timely investigation and response to high-priority security events.

Essential Job Functions

• Design and implement technical security controls across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
• Support secure architecture and security reviews for applications, APIs, third-party integrations, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines and automate security testing using SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets detection, and other security tooling.
• Analyze vulnerabilities across infrastructure and applications and drive risk-based remediation plans.
• Perform threat modeling for insurance systems, claims platforms, applications, APIs, cloud services, and AI-enabled workloads.
• Ensure infrastructure as code (IaC) follows security best practices and compliance controls.
• Deploy and manage security controls in Azure, AWS, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Contribute to audits, risk assessments, and technical security documentation.
• Provide security oversight for complex integrations and high-risk system design, including third-party, SaaS, AI/ML and generative AI workloads, and customer payment environments.
• Act as a technical security subject matter expert for engineering and development teams, providing guidance on secure design patterns, controls, automation, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Evaluate and implement security controls for AI systems, including generative AI, AI agents, models, APIs, data flows, and associated third- and fourth-party services.
• Use AI and automation to improve security engineering and operational workflows, including alert enrichment, event triage, investigation, vulnerability analysis, threat analysis, remediation, reporting, and incident response.
• Participate in the Information Security on-call rotation and respond to escalated security alerts and incidents requiring timely investigation, containment, remediation, or coordination with internal teams and security service providers.
• Use automation and AI-assisted capabilities, where appropriate, to improve incident response speed, enrich security alerts, prioritize events based on risk, and reduce repetitive manual investigation activities while maintaining appropriate human oversight.
• Maintain thorough documentation of security processes, configurations, incident response procedures, automation workflows, and work tickets to ensure operational transparency, audit readiness, and effective knowledge transfer across teams.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, CIS/MIS, database administration, or equivalent industry experience in related field, or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience that provides the skills necessary to perform the essential functions of the job.

Certifications

• Required: CompTIA Security+ Certification
• Preferred: AWS Solution Architect, AWS Security Specialty, or equivalent.

Work Experience Requirements

• At least two years in security engineering or five years in engineering roles within IT, DevOps, application development, cloud engineering or cybersecurity operations.
• Strong understanding of network, application, API, identity and cloud security principles.
• Experience with DevSecOps and implementing security guardrails in CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with scripting and automation using technologies such as JavaScript, Python, JSON, YAML, PowerShell, Bash, APIs, or workflow automation platforms.
• Knowledge of AI security concepts, generative AI technologies, large language models (LLMs), AI agents, and security risks associated with enterprise AI adoption.
• Experience using AI-assisted technologies or automation to enhance cybersecurity processes, engineering workflows, security operations, or incident response is preferred

Texas Mutual Pay Transparency

The base pay range is based on the market evaluation of the job and may include pay for multiple levels. Individual base pay within the range is determined by a variety of factors, including experience, performance, education, and demonstration of skills and competencies required for each role. Your recruiter can discuss the full value of our total compensation package with you, including our generous bonus plans and flex-hybrid work model.

Base Pay Range

$102,485.35 - $126,599.55 Per Year

Flex-Hybrid Work Environment

Texas Mutual's flex-hybrid schedule allows you to bring your best self to work by working remotely and collaborating in the office based on business needs. All Texas Mutual employees are required to have Texas residency and travel to their designated office as needed.

Our Benefits

• Annual performance bonus and merit-based pay increase
• Lifestyle Savings Account ($1,000 per year)
• Automatic 4% employer contribution to retirement plan
• 401k plan with 100% employer match up to 6%
• Student loan repayment matching in 401k plan
• Three weeks' time off for vacation
• Nine paid holidays and two personal days each year
• Day one health, Rx, vision and dental insurance
• Life and disability insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Pet insurance and pet Rx discounts
• Free on-site gym, fitness classes, and health and wellness resources
• Free identity theft protection
• Free student loan repayment and refinancing consultation
• Professional development and tuition reimbursement
• Employee referral bonus
• Free onsite snacks